Young Fredle (Compact Disc)

November 2010 Indie Next List

“Young Fredle (rhymes with metal) is a house mouse. Specifically, he is a kitchen house mouse until 'The Missus' captures him under an upturned bowl and deposits him outside. Much excitement ensues with close scrapes and new experiences. Fredle gains insight into different lifestyles and reexamines his own. In the end, he learns that there are many excellent ways to be a mouse. Funny and thoughtful, this will make a lovely family read aloud!”
— Kat Goddard, The Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA

Description

Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they're called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle's quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Cynthia Voigtis the acclaimed author of many books, including Dicey's Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, winner of a Newbery Honor. For the body of her work, Cynthia Voigt was honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults. She lives with her husband in Maine."

Praise For…

"Move over, Stuart Little." —Kirkus (starred review)

"The adventure is gripping . . . this is a writer at the top of her form, warm without sentimentality, wise without pretension." —The Horn Book (starred review)

"Compelling . . . readers will identify with the universal conflict at the heart of Fredle's journey—even as he longs for home, he enjoys the newfound freedom." —Publishers Weekly